On the morning of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the old master had taken the men of the family to the ancestral graves early on. At the gravesite, the old master couldn't help crying, uttering words of contrition to the ancestors. He lamented the unfilial progeny for losing the old family house and such, with both Zhiming and Zhixin kneeling there silently without a word.
After the grave visit, everyone returned home. The old master ordered everything to be loaded onto carts, and just in time, several carts from the village also arrived, and all the belongings were loaded. Zhixin was industrious, having saved quite a bit of firewood, not all of which needed to be transported to the mountain since there was plenty of firewood on the mountain. So Mrs. Chen decided to give all this firewood to Huixin's family. Huixin's home was in the town where they had to buy firewood, and with ten or so zhang of it at home, giving it to Huixin meant they wouldn't have to buy any this year.
